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NOTIFICATION
Dated 01-07-2009
(i) These Regulations may be called the All India Council for Technical
Education (Prevention and Prohibition of Ragging in Technical
Institutions, Universities including Deemed to be Universities
imparting technical education) Regulations 2009.
(ii) They shall come into force on the date of the notification.
2. Objectives:-
In view of the directions of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in SLP No. 24295 of 2006
dated 16-05-2007 and in Civil Appeal number 887 of 2009, dated 08-05-2009 to
prohibit, prevent and eliminate the scourge of ragging including any conduct by any
student or students whether by words spoken or written or by an act which has the
effect of teasing, treating or handling with rudeness a fresher or any other student,
or indulging in rowdy or undisciplined activities by any student or students which
causes or is likely to cause annoyance, hardship or psychological harm or to raise
fear or apprehension thereof in any fresher or any other student or asking any
student to do any act which such student will not in the ordinary course do and
which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame, or torment or
embarrassment so as to adversely affect the physique or psyche of such fresher or
any other student, with or without an intent to derive a sadistic pleasure or showing
off power, authority or superiority by a student over any fresher or any other
student, in all higher education institutions in the country, and thereby, to provide
for the healthy development, physically and psychologically, of all students, the All
India Council for Technical Education,(AICTE) brings forth these Regulations.
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3. Definitions:-
(a) “Act” means the All India Council for Technical Education Act 1987 (52 of
1987);
(c) ‘University” means a University defined under clause (f) of section 2 of the
University Grants Commission Act, 1956 and includes an institution deemed
to be a University under section 3 of that Act.
(d) “Academic year” means the period from the commencement of admission
of students in any course of study in the institution up to the completion of
academic requirements for that particular year.
(f) “Fresher” means a student who has been admitted to an institution and who
is undergoing his/her first year of study in such institution.
(g) Words and expressions used and not defined herein but defined in the Act or
in the General Clauses Act, 1887, shall have the meanings respectively
assigned to them in the Act or in the General Clauses Act, 1887, as the case
may be. And
(h) All other words and expressions used herein and not defined but defined in
the All India Council for Technical Education Act, 1987 (52 of 1987), shall
have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the said Act;
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a. any conduct by any student or students whether by words spoken or written
or by an act which has the effect of teasing, treating or handling with
rudeness a fresher or any other student;
c. asking any student to do any act which such student will not in the ordinary
course do and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of
shame, or torment or embarrassment so as to adversely affect the physique or
psyche of such fresher or any other student;
d. any act by a senior student that prevents, disrupts or disturbs the regular
academic activity of any other student or a fresher;
e. exploiting the services of a fresher or any other student for completing the
academic tasks assigned to an individual or a group of students.
g. any act of physical abuse including all variants of it: sexual abuse,
homosexual assaults, stripping, forcing obscene and lewd acts, gestures,
causing bodily harm or any other danger to health or person;
h. any act or abuse by spoken words, emails, posts, public insults which would
also include deriving perverted pleasure, vicarious or sadistic thrill from
actively or passively participating in the discomfiture to fresher or any other
student;
i. any act that affects the mental health and self-confidence of a fresher or any
other student with or without an intent to derive a sadistic pleasure or
showing off power, authority or superiority by a student over any fresher or
any other student.
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1. The advertisement issued for admission by a technical institution, University
including Deemed to be University concerned and/or the admission
authority/ affiliating University/State Govt./UT/Central Govt. as the case
may be, shall clearly mention that ragging is totally banned and anyone
found guilty of ragging and/or abetting ragging is liable to be punished.
4. The application form shall also contain a printed affidavit, preferably both in
English and Hindi and/or in one of the regional languages and the affidavit
should be signed by the parent/guardian of the applicant to the effect that
he/she is also aware of the law in this regard and agrees to abide by the
punishment meted out to his/her ward in case the latter is found guilty of
ragging and/or abetting ragging.
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8. The AICTE or an Agency identified/nominated for the purpose and
affiliating Universities and Directorate of Technical Education of the
concerned State Govt./UT shall maintain an appropriate data base of the
affidavits in the digital form obtained from every student at the time of
admission to the technical institutions, Universities including Deemed to be
Universities imparting technical education.
9. Each batch of fresher’s should be divided into small groups and each such
group shall be assigned to a member of staff. Such staff member should
interact individually with each member of the group on daily basis to
ascertain the problems/difficulties, if any faced by the freshers in the
Institution and extend necessary help.
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above shall explain to the new entrants the arrangements for their induction
and orientation which promote efficient and effective means of integrating
them fully as students.
14. The information booklet mentioned above shall also tell the freshers about
their rights as bona fide students and clearly instructing them that they
should desist from doing anything against their will even if ordered by the
seniors, and that they have nothing to fear as the institution cares for them
and shall not tolerate any atrocities against them.
15. The information booklet mentioned above shall contain a calendar of events
and activities laid down by the institution to facilitate and complement
familiarization of juniors with the academic environment of the institution.
16. To make the community at large and the students in particular aware of the
dehumanizing effect of ragging, and the approach of the institution towards
those indulging in ragging, big posters (preferably with different colors for
the provisions of law, punishments, etc.) shall be prominently displayed on
all Notice Boards of all departments, hostels and other buildings as well as at
vulnerable places Some of such posters shall be of permanent nature in
certain vulnerable places.
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21. The faculties/departments/units of the technical Institution, University
including Deemed to be University imparting technical education shall have
induction arrangements (including those which anticipate, identify and plan
to meet any special needs of any specific section of students) in place well
in advance of the beginning of the academic year with a clear sense of the
main aims and objectives of the induction process.
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e) It shall also be the duty of the Anti-Ragging Squad to conduct an on-the-spot
enquiry into any incidents of ragging referred to it by the Head of the
institution or any member of the faculty or any member of the staff or any
student or any parent or guardian or any employee of a service provider or by
any other person, as the case may be; and the enquiry report along with
recommendations shall be submitted to the Anti-Ragging Committee for
action. Provided that the Anti-Ragging Squad shall conduct such enquiry
observing a fair and transparent procedure and the principles of natural
justice and after giving adequate opportunity to the student or students
accused of ragging and other witnesses to place before it the facts,
documents and views concerning the incidents of ragging, and considerations
such other relevant information as may be required.
f) Mentoring Cell: Every institution shall, at the end of each academic year, in
order to promote the objectives of these Regulations, constitute a Mentoring
Cell consisting of students volunteering to be Mentors for freshers, in the
succeeding academic year; and there shall be as many levels or tiers of
Mentors as the number of batches in the institution, at the rate of one Mentor
for six fresher’s and one Mentor of a higher level for six Mentors of the
lower level.
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i) The Monitoring Cell shall also review the efforts made by institutions to
publicize anti-ragging measures, soliciting of affidavits from
parents/guardians and from students, each academic year, to abstain from
ragging activities or willingness to be penalized for violation; and shall
function as the prime mover for initiating action for amending the Statues or
Ordinances or Bye-laws to facilitate the implementation of anti-ragging
measures at the level of the institution.
1. The Head of the Institution along with other administrative authorities should
take adequate measures for prevention of ragging. Any lapse on the part of
these authorities shall make them liable for criminal action for negligence of
duty. The technical Institution, University including Deemed to be
University imparting technical education should incorporate a clause in their
letter of appointment that the Director, Faculty and other administrative
Heads should ensure all possible steps for prevention of ragging in the
premises of the educational institutions, and that they are liable for action, in
case of non-compliance.
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8. Actions to be taken against students for indulging and abetting ragging
in technical institutions Universities including Deemed to be University
imparting technical education:-
4. a) Depending upon the nature and gravity of the offence as established the
possible punishments for those found guilty of ragging at the
institution level shall be any one or any combination of the
following:-
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i. In case of an order of an institution, affiliated to or constituent
part, of the University, to the Vice-Chancellor of the
University;
ii. In case of an order of a University, to its Chancellor.
iii. In case of an institution of national importance created by an
Act of Parliament, to the Chairman or Chancellor of the
institution, as the case may be.
4. The AICTE shall, in respect of any institution that fails to take adequate
steps to prevent ragging or fails to act in accordance with these Regulations
or fails to punish perpetrators or incidents of ragging suitably, take one of
more of the following measures, namely;
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i. No admission/Withdrawal of approval granted under section 10(k) of
AICTE Act.
ii. Withholding any grant allocated.
iii. Declaring the institution ineligible for consideration for any assistance
under any of the general or special assistance programmes of the
AICTE.
iv. Informing the general public, including potential candidates for
admission, through a notice displayed prominently in the newspapers
or other suitable media and posted on the website of the AICTE,
declaring that the institution does not possess the minimum academic
standards.
v. Taking such other action within its powers as it may deem fit and
impose such other penalties as may be provided in the Act for such
duration of time as the institution complies with the provisions of
these Regulations.
10. Duties and Responsibilities of the All India Council for technical
Education:-
a) All India Council for technical Education, or the Central Government or the
agency authorized for the purpose shall establish, fund and operate, a toll-
free Anti-Ragging Helpline, operational round the clock, which could be
accessed by students in distress owing to ragging related incidents.
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d) The telephone numbers of the Anti-Ragging Helpline and all the important
functionaries in every institution Heads of institutions, faculty members,
members of the anti-ragging committees and anti- ragging squads, district
and sub-divisional authorities and state authorities, Wardens of hostels, and
other functionaries or authorities where relevant, shall be widely
disseminated for access or to seek help in emergencies.
f) The All India Council for technical Education, the Central Government or the
agency authorized for the purpose shall maintain an appropriate data base to
be created out of affidavits, affirmed by each student and his/her
parents/guardians and stored electronically by the institution; and such
database shall also function as a record of ragging complaints received, and
the status of the action taken thereon.
g) The All India Council for technical Education, the Central Government or the
agency authorized for the purpose shall make available the database to a non-
governmental agency to be nominated by the Central Government, to build
confidence in the public and also to provide information of non compliance
with these Regulations to the Councils and to such bodies as may be
authorized by the All India Council for technical Education/Central
Government.
11. The All India Council for technical Education shall take the following
regulatory steps, namely;
a) The All India Council for technical Education shall make it mandatory for the
institutions to incorporate in their prospectus, the directions of the Central
Government or the State Level Monitoring Committee with regard to
prohibition and consequences of ragging, and that non-compliance with these
Regulations and directions so provided, shall be considered as lowering of
academic standards by the institution, therefore making it liable for
appropriate action.
b) The All India Council for technical Education shall verify that the institutions
strictly comply with the requirement of getting the affidavits from the
students and their parents/guardians as envisaged under these Regulations.
c) The All India Council for technical Education shall include a specific
condition in the Utilization Certificate, in respect of any financial assistance
or grants-in-aid to any institution under any of the general or special schemes
of the All India Council for technical Education that the institution has
complied with the anti-ragging measures.
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d) Any incident of ragging in an institution shall adversely affect its
accreditation, ranking or grading by National Board of Accreditation or by
any other authorized accreditation agencies while assessing the institution for
accreditation, ranking or grading purposes.
e) The All India Council for technical Education shall constitute an Inter-
Council Committee, consisting of representatives of the various Councils,
the Non-Governmental agency responsible for monitoring the database
maintained by the All India Council for technical Education/Central
Government and such other bodies in higher education, to coordinate and
monitor the anti-ragging measures in institutions across the country and to
make recommendations from time to time; and shall meet at least once in six
months each year.
f) The All India Council for technical Education shall institute an Anti-Ragging
Cell within the AICTE as an institutional mechanism to provide secretarial
support for collection of information and monitoring, and to coordinate with
the State Level Monitoring Cells and University Level Committees for
effective implementation of anti-ragging measures, and the Cell shall also
coordinate with the Non-Governmental agency responsible for monitoring
the database maintained by the All India Council for technical
Education/central Government.
(Member Secretary)
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